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Dark matter theories take a blow

Posted April 19, 2012 - 06:01 by Emma Woollacott

If dark matter exists, it's not hiding out in our neighbourhood, baffled scientists have revealed.

LHC reaches highest energy level yet

Posted April 6, 2012 - 04:34 by Emma Woollacott

CERN yesterday ramped the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) up to record levels, ahcieving a collision energy of 8 TeV.

'Hints' found of Higgs boson, says CERN

Posted December 14, 2011 - 03:49 by Emma Woollacott

Well, no definite proof - but scientists at CERN say they've seen 'tantalising hints' of the Higgs boson, and that they've narrowed the range of mass it could have - if it exists.

Earth's sixth mass extinction could already be underway

Posted March 3, 2011 - 05:40 by Emma Woollacott

Life on earth is on the verge of a mass extinction comparable to that which wiped out the dinosaurs, scientists at UC Berkeley have warned.

Hawking says colonization not an option

Posted August 9, 2010 - 14:29 by STARR KESHET

Stephen Hawking believes humans must colonize additional planets or face mass extinction.

Aftershock: Chilean quake shortened Earth days

Posted March 2, 2010 - 18:47 by Aharon Etengoff

A JPL research scientist has hypothesized that the recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile shortened the length of each Earth day by approximately 1.26 microseconds, or one millionth of a second.